Councillors will decide next week if a former bank in the city centre can be turned into a new 1930s-themed restaurant. Bar and restaurant chain Cosy Club, which describes itself as "aristocratic abundance with a dash of local village cricket pavilion pottiness", lodged an application in May for the former NatWest bank on London Street in Norwich.

UC San Diego is offering up a variety of new food choices for students as they begin a new school year. UCSD's Housing Dining and Hospitality service has expanded its menu to better serve students who are dealing with allergies or who want to make healthier diet choices, the university said in a news release.

... to straddle the space between classic and more modern renditions with great success. David Cohen is a freelance dining critic who also writes for Riverside and Redlands magazines. Send him an email at dcohen4@verizon.net and follow him on Twitter ...

The longtime Northwest Portland home of one of Portland's most beloved farm-to-table restaurants finally has a new tenant. Summer and Patrick Triato, owners of Southeast Portland event space Union/Pine, will take over the former Wildwood space for Bar West, a 40-seat restaurant and bar, Portland Monthly reports .

The Vegano food truck has become a familiar site Newcastle's Quayside Market every Sunday, and is now set to have a permanent home in the city centre They've been delighting customers on the Quayside for over a year with their 'faken cheez burgers' and 'porklyke hotdogs'. Now the husband and wife team behind the Vegano food truck are setting up a more permanent home in Newcastle 's city centre.

Folks may not realize that the Peninsula has developed into a hot spot for Korean food, with national favorites offered in a variety of seemingly mainstream American restaurants. Denbigh's Korean community attracted Andrew Lee, 35, to move from Richmond about five years ago.

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... Rutgers Club . The university this year spent $1.25 million in an attempt to transform the second floor of a campus dining hall into a bar and restaurant for Rutgers sports fans, faculty, alumni, students - and, frankly, anyone else Rutgers can get. ...

Chances are, you've already heard that the menu is the dirtiest item in a restaurant -harboring about 185,000 bacteria, which is just one of the many everyday items that are dirtier than a toilet seat . Surprisingly, the second dirtiest item in a restaurant isn't in the bathroom.

It's that time of year again as, the Ram's Head Dining Hall at Shawsheen Valley Technical High School has reopened to the public. According to instructor Joe Williams, the lead instructor for Culinary Arts, the student-operated establishment is offering its usual selections of meals at always affordable prices.

It was the dream of owner Lou Henry, the nephew of building owners Matt, Kurt and Chris Henry who took over the former Rib Room and ran it as an updated version for less than two years before closing the legendary spot at the end of 2017.

WITH its tempting bowls piled high with pasta and cheese-laden pizzas, the mid-range Italian restaurant market is a particularly crowded one. But I have to confess I sighed a little when I saw the restaurant on the corner between Durham's Market Place and Silver Street had become one such establishment.

The owners of a popular Italian restaurant in Bay City are looking to pass on their aprons to a buyer who will continue with the restaurant's legacy or cook up their own. Nino's Family Restaurant offers Italian dishes, wines and customer service to make you feel like you're a part of the family, said co-owner Liliana Hintz.

Best Western has increased its brand portfolio to 13 with the introduction of two new "boutique" lines bearing the unusual names Sadie Hotels and Aiden Hotels. The lodging giant hasn't identified any locations yet but is offering the new brands to hotel operators and developers who want a global affiliation for their properties in the proper market niche.

Owner of HK$35 million food court at West Kowloon station in Hong Kong hungry to prove meals can be fast and good Restaurant chain operating at vast new high-speed railway terminus hopes for vibrant dining scene as travellers and station visitors pour in Food options at train stations and airports are normally limited to anaemic-looking sandwiches, burgers, and an assortment of fast food. The man in charge of feeding passengers at West Kowloon station wants to change all that.